Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 1 Abbe-Auwers
Reference number: HS/1
Date: 1819-1875
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Cleveland Abbe; Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland; John Couch Adams; the Admiralty; George Biddell Airy; Giovanni Battista Amici; Andre Marie Ampere; Thomas Andrews; Francois Jean Dominique Arago; Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander; Matthew Arnold; Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur Auwers.
- Reference number
- HS/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1819-1875
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 426 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 1 Abbe-Auwers, 1819-1875, HS/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_1/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-1-abbe-auwers, accessed on 16 March 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 427 manuscripts:
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Letter, from John Couch Adams to Sir John Herschel, dated at St. John's College, Cambridge
10 November 1847 Creator: John Couch Adams Reference number: HS/1/1 -
Letter, from John Couch Adams to Sir John Herschel, dated at St. John's College, Cambridge
31 December 1847 Creator: John Couch Adams Reference number: HS/1/2 -
Letter, from John Couch Adams to Sir John Herschel, dated at St. John's College, Cambridge
17 May 1848 Creator: John Couch Adams Reference number: HS/1/3 -
Letter, from John Couch Adams to Sir John Herschel, dated at Launceston
6 October 1848 Creator: John Couch Adams Reference number: HS/1/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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